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Itamar Turner-Trauring

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Articles on Python performance (with a focus on data science / scientific computing) and Docker packaging at https://pythonspeed.com (click through and sign up […] 🌉 bridged from https://hachyderm.io/@itamarst on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/

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Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 3h

@glyph This release also reduces safety guarantees!

Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Google Ads is a giant river of revenue and yet the user interface for adding ads is quite broken (I can't save changes for reasons the UI refuses to specify; there are errors in the Console). Amazing example of organizational priorities at work.

Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 8h

Everyone: Look at all the exciting features in Python 3.14!

Me: I'm so excited to learn about all the new features in Python 3.10!

#python

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Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 9h

@kajord Does this work with Maturin?

Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 9h

BEHOLD! Need to search for multiple strings in a large string, and do so quickly?

Sponsored by G-Research OSS, built on top of the `ahocorasick` Rust crate and PyO3, faster than PyAhoCorasick, and now with support for Python 3.14 and free-threading:

https://pypi.org/project/ahocorasick-rs/ […]

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Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 9h

I am releasing software!

And by releasing I mean:

1. Doing a release.
2. It fails.
3. I realize I forgot to update version in that one place.
4. Updating the version.
5. Doing a release.
6. Realizing PyPI isn't showing the description.
7. Trying to fix that.
8. Doing a release.
9. Writing this […]

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Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11h

Anyway PSA if you have a failure to link against python314t.lib on Windows (free-threaded) with PyO3, you may need to upgrade Maturin version.

#python

Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11h

I am writing software! And by writing software I mean:

1. Staring at mysteriously failing build.
2. Upgrading a GitHub Actions step's version.
3. Staring at mysteriously failing build, again.
4. Realizing I committed to the wrong branch, commit to the right branch.
5. Staring at mysteriously […]

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Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 8d

@offby1 Maybe they're not actually politically progressive.

Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 9d

This is very good and very much worth reading: https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/essay_on_redacted

Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10d

@glyph why not nox

Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11d

@glyph I started on my queue of Steam games, and bounced off one but Rome: Expeditions I died in the first tutorial fight so seemed promising, and so far it's a fun tactical RPG.

Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15d

@glyph I finished it the first time, after missing some major side quests, so I was thinking I'd redo it and do those but... might just give up if I can find another game.

OTOH maybe it's just the depression talking (and I'm working on that so maybe in two months I'll feel different.)

Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15d

@glyph I think for me it's partially the way all the side quests just somehow don't mean much? Because I've hit end of power curve and also what does it matter if the world will be destroyed anyway.

Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15d

@glyph I'm replaying, and I find Act 3 somehow much less fun, not sure why.

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Holger Hellinger @holger.hellinger.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 16d

Why your next car should be an electric cargo bike | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/781908/electric-cargo-bike-car-replace-bike-bus

Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19d

Work for the ACLU of Massachusetts as a data scientist: https://www.aclum.org/en/jobs/technology-liberty-fellow-0

"The ACLU of Massachusetts (ACLUM) is seeking a full-time Technology for Liberty Fellow to join its Technology for Liberty (T4L) Program team."

#FediHire #fedihired

Technology for Liberty Fellow

The ACLU of Massachusetts (ACLUM) is seeking a full-time Technology for Liberty Fellow to join its Technology for Liberty (T4L) Program team. The T4L Fellow plays an integral part in ACLUM’s efforts

www.aclum.org

Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19d

TIL that some people don't realize Ken Cheng writes satire.

Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21d

@skinnylatte Welcome to Boston!

Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22d

Intel has a cross-platform library but no one has wrapped it for Python (or Rust).

Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22d

Trying out Python bindings of PAPI, a cross-platform hardware counter library. I've tried it in the past and failed, so for my book (https://pythonspeed.com/products/practicesperformance/) I'm using a Python wrapper I created for a Linux-only Rust library that access perf.

It would be nice to […]

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Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26d

Just fixed a bug by adding a line that does `self.__class__ = ModuleType`.

Apropos of nothing, you can hire me to maintain critical open source software. I can handle even the kind of critical libraries that are old and terrifying and have millions of downloads a month. Chances are I've seen […]

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Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28d

Occasional reminder that anyone with a Canadian ancestor can now apply to get a citizenship grant: https://www.reddit.com/r/Canadiancitizenship/wiki/index/

It can be a very distant ancestor! Really! "But my it's my great-great grandmother" yep that's OK you can apply anyway, some people have […]

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Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29d

@SnoopJ @skinnylatte My understanding is that new Acela is only faster in theory, because in practice the real limit is the tracks. So sadly not any better.

Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29d

@skinnylatte And looks like there is a Amtrak option from Kingston NY to DC (https://wanderu.com is how I usually check for whether there's a train and/or bus, and I am then almost always saddened by how long it'll take to get wherever I'm going.)